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Bennua asteroid

Space

NASA is about to grab a chunk of rock from asteroid Bennu

NASA’s OSIRIS-REx spacecraft is about to extend its robotic arm and bounce off the asteroid Bennu, collecting a sample of dust and rocks to bring back to Earth in 2023

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OSIRIS-REx and Bennu

Space

Asteroid Bennu was once part of a space rock with flowing water

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Occator crater

Space

Dwarf planet Ceres may be home to an underground ocean

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Sectioned fragment from an iron meteorite that caused the Odessa crater in Texas, US, about 50,000 years ago

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Iron meteorites

Asteroid strike

Earth

Asteroid that killed the dinosaurs hit just right for maximum damage

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We may have found 19 more interstellar asteroids in our solar system

Space

We may have found 19 more interstellar asteroids in our solar system

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Asteroid

Space

Tiny meteorite found in Antarctica came from an unknown asteroid

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Hayabusa-2 asteroid Ryugu

Space

Bombing asteroid Ryugu reveals it is a spritely 9 million years old

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Inside the mission to stop killer asteroids from smashing into Earth

Life

Inside the mission to stop killer asteroids from smashing into Earth

Features

Illustration of a large asteroid colliding with Earth on the Yucatan Peninsula, forming the Chicxulub crater

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Chicxulub

A massive asteroid that hit Earth 65 million years ago

Earth

Did an asteroid impact 65 million years ago really kill the dinosaurs?

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Space

‘Grazing fireball’ skimmed Earth's atmosphere then went back to space

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Celestial time travel: How asteroids can reveal the history of space

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The inside story on 'Oumuamua and other interstellar worlds

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